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Glitter's Group
Glitter
- Action Girl: A cutesy unicorn-mare who can cut you to ribbons with her horn and throw you around like a ragdoll with her magic.
- Always Someone Better: She felt that way towards her brother and her father, both of which seemingly outshone her when it came to magical ability.
- Badass Bandolier: Or the unicorn-version of it. For the majority of the story Glitter wears a harness with grenades attached to it.
- Badass in Distress: Glitter is more than capable of holding her own, but she has her moments of getting overwhelmed and needing help from her teammates.
- The Chosen One: Season 3 reveals she is Death's steed. Glitter isn't too happy about it, to say the least.
- Damsel in Distress:
- Blaze has to save her from the hellhound when she passes out from blood loss and fever in episode 3.
- Blight kidnaps her under Pestilence's orders. She only narrowly escapes thanks to Blight coming to his senses after realizing Pestilence was never planning to make Glitter immortal like he promised.
- Defiant to the End: When Death is about to kill her (or pretendng to, anyway) in episode 92, it looks for a brief moment as if she's preparing to beg for her life. But then she instead calls Death a coward for following Pestilence's orders, despite having the power and the means to defy him. Subverted, since Blight's intervention allows her to escape.
- Despair Event Horizon: Nearly enters one twice. Once when she believes Commander Sprinkles has been killed and another one when Yellowstone camp is overrun by the zombie-gnomes and her, Blaze and Kate are left as the only survivors. Both times she snaps out of it relatively quickly.
- Hot-Blooded: She's very quick to charge in and pick a fight. It usually takes others holding her back in some way. shape or form to make her stop and listen.
- The Leader: Slowly but steadily steps into this position over the course of the story, being the one to lead the group most of the time and make the tougher decisions.
- Pink Is Feminine: Downplayed. Her mane is partially pink and she's the only female unicorn in the group.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives a major one to Famine and Death in episode 101 when they reveal to her that Death was Grim the whole time and Famine knew, but lied about it. She chews both of them out for their role in the current zombie apocalypse and goes so far as to call them monsters for not doing anything to stop it.
Kate
Click here to see her six years older
A human child Glitter rescued from zombies. She's snarky and resourceful, but hides a lot of pain underneath her tough demeanor. She is the fifth horseman Providence and is destined to end the apocalypse.
- Action Girl: Despite being just a child she puts up a remarkable fight with her nailed bat. She's also pretty quick and nimble, making it difficult for opponents to get their hands on her.
- Exaggerated after her stay in Underhill. Additionally to her already present badassery, she is now much more experienced and physically fit.
- Batter Up!: Wields a nail-studded bat as her weapon of choice. She later trades it for her sword.
- Braids of Action: When she turns into Providence for the first time, her hair magically braids itself.
- The Chosen One: The Hellhound is hunting her because she is the Catalyst, the human destined to end the apocalypse once and for all. It's later on revealed that Kate is the fifth horseman Providence and that it's her destiny to slay the deserters Pestilence and Death.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's a blonde and despite her attitude, she deeply cares about her friends and is very protective of them. She's even willing to enter a blood-pact with a vampire to keep them safe.
- Heroes Prefer Swords: As Providence she wields a special sword made from unicorn horn that is capable of wounding and killing other Horsemen.
- Mouthy Kid: Not afraid of speaking her mind to the adults.
- Plot-Relevant Age-Up: Due to the Underhill's time working in mysterious ways, Kate ages six years during her one week's stay there. When Blaze, Sprinkles and Pebble find her she's become a young adult.
- Took a Level in Badass: Not that she wasn't badass before, but six years of wandering through Underhill certainly didn't make her weaker.
Blaze
- Can't Spit It Out: Try as he might, he's too shy to confess his feelings to Glitter. When it actually looks like he might by able to say these three little words after all in episode 69, Commander Sprinkles interrupts.
- Combat Medic: Despite being primarily trained to heal, his magic and sharp horn come in just as useful as his medical skills. He has a lot of Big Damn Heroes-moments throughout the comic that consist of him pulling everybody out of danger.
- Dogged Nice Guy: He's always by Glitter's side and willing to defend her with his life. But he just can't seem to get her to see him as more than just a friend.
- Fiery Redhead: He has a reddish-orange mane and though he doesn't really show it around Glitter, he has quite the temper on him. With people who aren't her, he tends to be pretty harsh and he's prone to snapping when annoyed.
- Green-Eyed Monster: He's intensely jealous of commander Sprinkles for being the object of Glitter's affection while he's been stuck in the friendzone for presumably years. It gets worse when Sprinkles returns as a zombie and unintentionally interrupts Blaze's love confession to Glitter. Blaze falls into a jealous slump and becomes a real tool for the next few chapters.
- Meaningful Appearance: His long mane tends to cover one of his eyes at all times. The dragon burns it off in episode 86, signalling Blaze's character growth.
Grim / Death
Click here to see his true form as Death
A hellhound who is after Kate. He ends up involuntarily joining the team when Glitter puts a magic collar on him. However, as the group travels on, he seems to develop some genuine fondness for them and Kate in particular. Season 2 reveals he was actually the horseman Death in disguise.
- The Atoner: He finally commits to this in season 3 and resolves to go against Pestilence with Glitter.
- Becoming the Mask: Despite their numerous ups and downs, his time as Grim has caused him to grow attached to Glitter, Kate and the rest of the group. So much so that he can't find it in himself to actually hurt them when he returns to Pestilence's side and eventually chooses to join them for real.
- Dark Is Evil: An all black creature of death who is introduced hunting down and trying to kill a little girl.
- Dark Is Not Evil: However, he starts to come around the longer he travels with Kate and the rest. Ultimately culminating in him fully joining the good guys as Death.
- Hellhound: A black, canine hell-beast that hunts its victims to the ends of the earth and drags their souls down to hell. However, episode 37 shows he's also capable of sending souls to the afterlife in a more gentle manner. Seeing as he's actually Death himself, of course he gets to decide how people go.
- Flat-Earth Atheist: He keeps insisting that there is no fifth horseman and that Kate cannot possibly bring an end to the apocalypse. In a world where all sorts of mythical creatures and magic exist, the concept of an unknown fifth horseman isn't really as outlandish as he makes it out to be. This despite the fact that Kate has already found her weapon (the sword) and that all signs point to her truly being a horseman. This attitude carries over into season 3, where Death keeps stubbornly insisting that there is no horseman named Providence and that only him and Glitter can bring an end to the apocalypse.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While he tends to lean more on the "jerk"-part most of the time for obvious reasons, as the story goes on the "heart of gold"-part begins to shine through more and more. It starts when he warns Glitter indirectly of the vampire-cult, even though he didn't have to, though he later insists he was just looking out for himself. Then he sets a group of zombiefied souls free, which is basically a Mercy Kill, and tells them to "be at peace". He also grows pretty close to and protective of Kate, to the point he's willing to go toe-to-toe with Blight to defend her. He seemingly subverts the trope in season 2 when he lures Kate to a remote location in Bryce Canyon and tries to kill her and is then revealed to actually be Death when she manages to wound him and chase him off. But then he re-establishes the trope when he chooses humanity and Glitter's group over Pestilence and their vengeance and decides to defect to the heroes' side for good in season 3.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: He's actually capable of taking a variety of forms, from hellhounds to seemingly ordinary crows.
- Walking Spoiler: It's really hard to talk about him without mentioning he's actually Death in disguise.
Silver
Click here to see him as War's steed
An old hermit and War's former steed. He hates his former rider and has resolved to find a way to stop the apocalypse.
- And I Must Scream: If his flashback is any indication, he had no choice in becoming War's steed. He was only able to be himself again once War released him from his service.
- The Atoner: He feels responsible for everything he and his rider did and sees finding a way to end the apocalypse as the least he can do to make up for it. He also gives Kate his horn citing that reason when War and him perform a Mutual Kill.
- The Big Guy: Could be considered this for Glitter's group, as he's the one with the strongest magic and is even able to fight a horseman to a near stand-still.
- Big Guy Fatality Syndrome: The most powerful magic-user on the heroes's side and he dies at the end of season 1.
- Combat Tentacles: How his magic mostly functions in combat.
- The Hermit: He lives alone in a cave in the woods and is a pretty strange individual. Blame War for that. Subverted, since he joins Glitter's group on their quest to find Death.
- Heroic Sacrifice: After he realizes the wound War inflicted on him is fatal, he volunteers his horn to cure Kate's vampirism. When the others hesitate, he breaks it off himself, making him Deader than Dead.
- It's Personal: He hates War for forcing him to be his steed and making him watch as entire nations tore each other apart because of them.
- Light Is Good: He is a white-silver unicorn and is looking for a way to end the apocalypse.
- Mutual Kill: Manages to stab War fatally with his horn, but ends up being stabbed in turn.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: When his eyes glow red, he's preparing to use some heavy magic on his enemies.
- Silver Fox: He is a fair bit older than Blaze and Glitter, but the sirens seem to find him just as attractive as the human men they keep on their island. The group has to use blackmail to keep them from imprisoning him, too.
Sprinkles
Click here to see him as a zombie
Glitter's and Blaze's former commander. He was believed lost after the fall of Yellowstone. In reality, he'd been captured by Blight and used for the Sorceress's experiments. She managed to zombify him, but he retained his self-awareness.
- And I Must Scream: He retains his self-awareness while under the Sorceress's control, but can't resist her commands.
- Back from the Dead: He returns as an intelligent zombie in episode 61. After Glitter, Kate and Blaze defeat the sorceress and break him out of her control, he becomes a part of Glitter's group again.
- Bolivian Army Cliffhanger: The last we see of him in season 1 is him charging into a zombie-horde to lure them away from Glitter, Blaze and Kate. Season 2 reveals he survived... sort of.
- Distressed Dude: The sorceress captured him after Yellowstone was overrun and turned him into an intelligent zombie. He is completely under her control and can't do anything about it, until Glitter and her friends manage to kill her and set him free.
- Horror Hunger: As a zombie, he can only eat brains. Other food just goes straight through him.
- Pretty Boy: Before his zombiefication he's consistently shown with Bishie Sparkles and Glitter seems to have a pretty big crush on him. As an undead this is mitigated somewhat, but Glitter's feelings for him remain unchanged.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: While he has to make pretty tough decisions as a commander, he always takes care to be fair in them and hears everybody out. Though that doesn't mean that he'll let himself get pushed around.
- Walking Spoiler: Kinda hard to talk about him without mentioning he returns in season 2.
The Four Horsemen
In General
Otherworldly beings who are destined to end the world.
- Big Bad: Barring Famine, all of them were so overwhelmed by their hatred for humanity that they decided to make them suffer instead of giving them a fresh start like they were supposed to. Pestilence engineered the zombie plague and has been upholding for years and years on end, while Death refuses to ride and bring an end to the apocalypse. While it's unknown how exactly War felt about humanity, seeing as he assisted Pestilence until Silver killed him it can be inferred he was on their side.
- Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Obviously. It was their job to end civilization through, well, wars, famines, plagues and deaths. War and Famine have already fulfilled their duties and are more or less free to do whatever they want now, while Death and Pestilence intentionally neglected theirs to make humanity pay for their crimes.
- Humanoid Abomination: They all take vaguely human appearances, but they are far from human.
- One-Winged Angel: When at full power, they can change from their regular into and even mightier and bigger form.
Famine
- Armorpiercing Question: When Death tries to justify him and Pestilence's drawing out of the apocalypse by claiming that humans should suffer for destroying the planet, Famine points out that he and Pestilence are doing very much the same.Death: Humans are incredibly selfish. They destroyed the planet in search of arbitrary wealth.
Famine: And what exactly is Pestilence doing? - Benevolent Boss: Compared to the other horsemen, she and her steed seem to have the most amicable relationship. She let her go after she was done decimating crops and seeing as she still speaks fondly of her, they probably parted on good or at least civil terms. Sunshine is even still willing to come when Famine calls, which she does when she's needed to talk to Glimmer, her niece.
- Big Eater: The group first encounters her sitting on a huge pile of snacks that she continually munches on during their conversation. In all of her subsequent appearances she has a bag of chips or something similar with her. In an unusual example of this trope she's not greedy about the food she hoards and is willing to share if asked.
- Fragile Speedster: She's very hard to actually get a grip on thanks to her teleportation powers and her general agility. But she's so physically weak that it's easy to pin her down once you do.
- The Gadfly: She takes great joy in teasing whoever she encounters and it's rare for her to take anything or anyone seriously.
- Glass Cannon: She can reduce any being to ashes with just a poke of her finger, but if you actually get the drop on her it's shockingly easy to take her down.
- Lack of Empathy: She describes hungry people as "extremely whiny" and states that she's sick of them. Keep in mind she is the reason for their whining.
- Subverted later when she admits that she regrets what she did to humanity, and didn't realize that so many people would die because of what she did.
- Lean and Mean: Subverted. She's disturbingly thin and can be very irritating to be around, but she's not actually evil, unlike most of her colleagues.
- No Sense of Personal Space: She tends to get really up close and personal with everone she talks to, much to their discomfort.
- More Teeth than the Osmond Family: She has rows of razor-sharp teeth that make her smiles looks pretty disturbing.
- Nothing but Skin and Bones: She's skeletal, seemingly having no meat on her at all. Which might explain why she's always chomping down on something when encountered.
- Nothing Personal: How she sees her part of the apocalypse, starving the world. Subverted in season 3 when she admits to Death that it should've just been a job to her, but she came to regret all the deaths and sorrow she caused.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When she actually drops her jovial attitude, it's usually a sign to shut up and listen.
- Sad Clown: As spunky as she may act at all times, she actually feels deeply guilty for her act in the apocalypse and wants it to be completed already.
- Teleportation: One of her powers. She uses it primarily for dodging.
- The Smurfette Principle: She is the only female horseman if you don't count Kate.
- Token Good Teammate: To the horsemen. She's the only one of them who did her job properly and bears humanity no ill will. She also frequently helps Glitter's group out with advice and is fully supportive of Kate becoming Providence and finishing what Pestilence started. In a rare moment of humility in season 3, she confesses to Death that she regrets what she did to humankind.
War
- Bad Boss: He selected and appointed Silver without caring whether Silver wanted to be his steed or not, then seemingly kept him under some form of brainwashing for the entirety of their act. When they meet again he doesn't hesitate to attack and eventually kill his former steed.
- Blood Knight: Well he's War so it's only logical. According to Pestilence he knew Silver was capable of killing him, but went into the fight anyway because "that is who War was."
- The Brute: Pestilence seems to have mostly used him for heavier grunt-work and his fighting style consists solely of "punch it and stab it until it stops moving".
- Dual Wielding: Uses two enchanted smaller blades in his fight against Silver. One of which he eventually manages to stab Silver fatally with.
- Mutual Kill: Performs one with Silver in the season 1 finale. Both of them stab each other to death.
- Pet the Dog: He let Silver go after their part of the apocalypse was finished, instead of trying to keep him for power like Pestilence did with Blight. Though seeing as he apparently just wanted a good fight with him sometime in the future, the kindness in this act is debatable.
- Red Is Violent: He is War and his skin is rusty-red. Silver's fur changed to the same color when he served as his steed.
- Silent Antagonist: He never speaks a single word even when he's mortally wounded. The most it gets out of him is a pained grunt.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: We barely know anything about him beyond what Silver tells the group. And then him and Silver kill each other in his first appearance.
Pestilence
Click here to see him at full power
The third rider of the apocalypse. He is responsible for the zombie plague. He believes humanity has done too much harm to be allowed to start over again and has dedicated himself to wipe them out.
- Ambiguous Situation: It's not entirely clear if his relationship with the Unseelie Queen is merely business or something more. Episode 107 confirms it was purely business on both ends, as the Unseelie Queen merely wanted his favor to protect her people and Pestilence just needed her power to become stronger.
- Berserk Button: Failing him and betraying him. He tells Blight in no uncertain terms that he better not mess up again when he fails to capture Kate and becomes so furious when he finds out about Death secretly helping Glitter that he loses his temper and literally explodes.
- Big Bad: He become the sole main antagonist after War’s death and Famine and Death performing a Heel–Face Turn.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: For someone so obsessed with loyalty, Pestilence seems to have none for anybody. He's willing to kill Death immediately when the latter doesn't want to kill Glitter, he never intended to keep his promise to Blight/Starlight of making Glitter a zombie and thus immortal and he betrays the Unseelie Queen when she offers him a bargain by taking all of her magic instead of only part of it and then has her thrown out like trash.
- Crazy-Prepared:
- Since Death could cancel out his powers in an instant if he decided to ride, Pestilence made sure to pull him to his side. When Death refuses to kill his steed Glitter, Pestilence tries to kill him for good to ensure his victory.
- He broke off Blight's horn, the only thing capable of hurting and killing him, just in case Blight ever decided to turn on him. He wears it around his neck to use as an emergency weapon.
- Green and Mean: Has washed-out green tones as his primary colors, his magic is bright green and he's the Man Behind the Man Big Bad.
- Hypocrite:
- He reacts badly when he finds one of his allies has turned against him, but he himself has a terminal Chronic Backstabbing Disorder and will break promises on a whim if it suits him to do so.
- He hates humans for driving he planet to ruin, but his zombie-plague is currently wreaking more havoc on Earth than humanity ever did.
- I Lied: Casually reveals to Blight that he was never planning on making Glitter immortal like he originally promised, since as Death's steed she's too big of a risk to keep alive.
- In the Hood: He wears a hood as part of his Plague Doctor get-up.
- It's All About Me: While he claims to be doing what he's doing to preserve what little of the world is left, he obviously enjoys the power he currently holds and has developed a very clear god-complex. Really the only reason the apocalypse is still going is because he doesn't want to give up his throne.
- The Man Behind the Man: He's the driving force behind the zombie plague and War and Death rebelling.
- Plague Doctor: He takes the appearance of one, with the typical goggles and mask. Ironic, since he doesn't cure plagues, he creates them.
- Sickly Green Glow: His magic often has this. Fitting, as sickness is his domain.
Death
The fourth horseman of the apocalypse. Due to him refusing to ride, the apocalypse has been drawn out.
For more information, check out Grim's folder.
For more information, check out Grim's folder.
Steeds
Sunshine
Click here to see her as Famine's steed
Famine's former steed, whom she released after her service. She is still willing to come to her former rider's aid in an emergency though.
- Beauty Equals Goodness: The only steed not horrifically warped by their rider, which is yet another sign that Famine is the horsemen's Token Good Teammate.
- Early-Bird Cameo: You can see both her normal and her steed-form in episode 39 in a flashback, when Famine tells Glitter and Kate about Kate's destiny. In episode 97 Famine name-drops her, before she finally appears in person in episode 101.
- Long-Lost Relative: Is Glitter’s aunt.
- Nothing but Skin and Bones: As Famine's steed, she shared her rider's skeletal appearance. The effect wore off after Famine released her from service, similar to Silver.
- Sacrificial Lion: She gets zombified and essentially dies during the fall of Haven.
Blight / Starlight
Click here to se him as Pestilence's steed
Pestilence's steed. A unicorn trapped in undeath.
- Big Brother Instinct: Had this towards Glitter when he was still Starlight. When he noticed he had contracted the same illness their mother had, he ran away so she wouldn't have to watch him die. In a twisted sense, he retains this character trait even now: He serves Pestilence mostly because the latter promised to make Glitter immortal as well, by turning her into an intelligent zombie like he did him. When Pestilence reveals he never intended to keep that promise, Blight immediately turns against him and helps his sister escape.
- Cain and Abel: Downplayed. He doesn't want to kill his sister, but he does want her to be turned into a zombie, which is basically A Fate Worse Than Death.
- Dirty Coward: Downplayed. He tends to overpower most of his enemies magic-wise, but whenever it looks like he might actually be in trouble, he teleports away. This character trait is also the reason he's currently serving Pestilence and let himself be zombie-fied. He was afraid of dying like his parents did, so he let Pestilence change him into a zombie.
- The Dragon: To his master, Pestilence. At least until he turns on him in season 3.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Messed up as he may be now, both in body and mind, he still cares for his sister Glitter. The main reason he went after her was so Pestilence could make her immortal as well. When Pestilence reveals he plans on killing her, Blight turns against his former master so that his sister can get away.
- Giggling Villain: Has a habit of breaking into a fit of mad laughter whenever he feels superior.
- Hidden Disdain Reveal: Calls Pestilence a "gigantic sack of rot" when turning against him and proclaims that he's been waiting to do that for a long time.
- One-Winged Angel: His steed-form, which is even more powerful than his regular form. It has him turn into a gigantic beast, capable of taking on a horseman.
- Slasher Smile: Most of the time he's wearing a deranged grin on his face.
- Teleportation: Has this ability and uses it mostly to get out of troublesome situations. Grim remarks that it's a rare ability among unicorns. This is early foreshadowing that he's actually Glitter's long-lost brother Starlight, who had it as well.
- That Man Is Dead: Seems to have abandoned his old name 'Starlight' completely for the new moniker of 'Blight'. Glitter using his old name exclusively after she learns his true identity and him reacting when she calls him for help by it implies that he has accepted it as his true name again.
Silver
For more information, check out Silver's folder.
Death's steed
For more information, check out Glitter's folder.
